Chapter Summaries

Da Bao defeated Di Tian in the Rakshasa God's Eighth Trial, earning the right to proceed to the Ninth Trial. After the Ten Sages and Fei Ling left for the Rakshasa Secret Realm, He Qiang stayed behind and called for someone hidden to come out and speak with him.

• Ten years after the fall of the Spirit Hall Empire, Da Bao met Di Tian in the Land of Great Beasts to face the trial required to advance his Rakshasa inheritance.
• Liu Xiaoxiao and Chen Long prepared a protected battlefield while Liu Xiaoxiao urged Fei Ling to watch the fight closely.
• Da Bao and Di Tian exchanged powerful attacks, and Da Bao used his Ninth Spirit Ring to absorb Di Tian's strike and counter with its power.
• Da Bao landed a decisive blow with the Rakshasa Demon Scythe, defeated Di Tian, and passed the trial.
• He Qiang sent Liu Xiaoxiao, Fei Ling, and the others to the Rakshasa Secret Realm to benefit from the divine power released during Da Bao's inheritance.
• After the others departed, He Qiang called out to someone concealed in the Star Dou Great Forest and invited them to talk.

Da Bao completed the Rakshasa God's inheritance, while He Qiang negotiated an agreement with the Silver Dragon King and revealed the Ten Sages' origins and plans to Tang San. The chapter ended with Divine Decrees spreading across the Douluo Continent and He Qiang secretly delivering additional decrees to major powers.

• Da Bao endured the Rakshasa God's ninth trial and became a Rakshasa God, while divine power raised the others' strength and granted Li Hong, Chen Fang, Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, and Little Fatty god inheritances.
• He Qiang and the Silver Dragon King negotiated a contract protecting Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and setting other rules for humans and spirit beasts.
• Liu Xiaoxiao and Tang San helped Fei Ling and Bai Chenxiang absorb God-Bestowed Soul Rings, and Fei Ling reached the level 70 bottleneck.
• He Qiang told Tang San that the Ten Sages came from a later era and had been sent to Douluo Continent to complete a three-visit game, then asked him to help establish regulations and purge Evil Soul Masters.
• Tang San, He Qiang, and Da Bao brought Divine Decrees to major powers, and the decrees spread across the continent; He Qiang later delivered sealed decrees to the Two Great Empires, the Upper Three Sects, and Shrek Academy.

With the Heaven Dou Empire on the brink of defeat, Xue Beng begged Tang San for help, and Tang San proposed a Five Gods' Duel against the Star Luo Empire. The duel was set for two months later at Shrek Academy, while the Ten Sages left to discuss their strategy.

• Two years passed as the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires clashed, and Da Bao led the Star Luo army to capture two provinces and threaten Heaven Dou City.
• Xue Beng asked Tang San to save the Heaven Dou Empire, and Tang San agreed to help one last time.
• Tang San proposed five battles over five days, with the Star Luo Empire agreeing to withdraw and avoid war for a hundred years if he won all five.
• He Qiang and the Ten Sages accepted the Five Gods' Duel, and He Qiang announced it across Douluo Continent for two months later at Shrek Academy.
• Liu Xiaoxiao opened a spatial passage and led the Ten Sages away to discuss their countermeasures.

The Ten Sages planned unexpected contests to challenge Tang San in the Five Gods' Duel, but Da Bao lost their arm-wrestling match and He Qiang lost at Go. The Ten Sages accepted both defeats and postponed the next round until tomorrow.

• He Qiang named the tentative Five Gods' Duel participants and proposed that Da Bao challenge Tang San to arm wrestling while he faced him at Go.
• Two months later, Da Bao and Tang San arm-wrestled before a huge crowd, and Tang San won by combining spirit abilities with Gravity Control.
• He Qiang challenged Tang San to Go, and they played two games while the others watched.
• He Qiang admitted Tang San had beaten him two to zero, and the Ten Sages accepted the losses and delayed the next round until tomorrow.

Fan Yihuang challenged Tang San to an all-around battle to expose his abilities, but Tang San controlled and defeated him. The Ten Sages then planned their next matches, with Chen Long choosing a divine-artifact contest and Liu Xiaoxiao proposing a ring-out battle.

• Fan Yihuang proposed facing Tang San directly so the Ten Sages could study Tang San's abilities and plan their remaining matches.
• Fan Yihuang and Tang San fought above Shrek Academy, where Fan Yihuang used his dragon transformation, Fire God Possession, and Fire Dragon Domain against Tang San's Sea God techniques.
• Tang San trapped Fan Yihuang with Azure Dragon Entanglement of Toughness and Unfixed Waves, but He Qiang stopped the attack and Liu Xiaoxiao teleported Fan Yihuang to safety.
• Fan Yihuang admitted defeat and warned the Ten Sages that Tang San's control could make a brief opening decisive.
• Chen Long volunteered to fight Tang San using divine artifacts, and Liu Xiaoxiao proposed a ring-out match for his own battle.

Chen Long fought Tang San in a divine-artifact-only battle, but conceded after Tang San’s defenses left him no way to break through. That night, Liu Xiaoxiao prepared to face Tang San next, though he admitted he had only a forty percent chance of winning.

• Chen Long opened with Sunlight Rainbow and Light Dragon Roars at the Sky, injuring Tang San, but Tang San pierced Chen Long’s shoulder with the Sea God Trident.
• Chen Long blocked the returning trident with Rising Sun, but Tang San combined Sun of the Sea and Moon of the Sea to strike him with Sun and Moon Shine Together.
• Chen Long used Shield of the Sun to survive Tang San’s attack and then pierced Tang San’s apparent position with Light Breaks Magic, but Tang San escaped through Body and Trident as One, Stars Shift.
• Tang San used Unfixed Waves to erase Chen Long’s attacks, and Chen Long conceded because he could not find an opening in Tang San’s defense.
• That night, Liu Xiaoxiao told the Ten Sages he had a forty percent chance against Tang San and hinted that he had a trump card.

Tang San defeated Liu Xiaoxiao in the final battle of the Five Gods' Duel after both used Evil God Possession. The Star Luo Empire agreed to withdraw its troops and return the Heaven Dou Empire’s territory, ending the duel.

• Liu Xiaoxiao and Tang San exchanged spatial and Sea God attacks, but neither could gain a decisive advantage.
• Tang San used Spider God Possession to boost his strength, while Liu Xiaoxiao countered his attacks with Space Imprisonment.
• Liu Xiaoxiao and Tang San both activated Evil God Possession, raising their power close to the God King Realm.
• Tang San struck Liu Xiaoxiao with the Deep Sea Heavy Hammer, driving him onto the ground and winning the match.
• Liu Xiaoxiao conceded, and Da Bao agreed that the Star Luo Empire would withdraw, return the Heaven Dou Empire’s territory, and refrain from invading for a hundred years.

He Qiang asked Da Bao to give up the throne for himself and his sons, explaining that the world’s rules and the coming reincarnation shaped the empires’ futures. After He Qiang was pulled away through a Space Rift, Da Bao heard Zhu Zhuyun lament that he had kept his distance from her for twelve years.

• He Qiang discussed with Da Bao how the world’s rules prevented them from changing the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires’ destined futures.
• He Qiang asked Da Bao to have his sons renounce the throne, and Da Bao agreed because neither son wanted to inherit it.
• Da Bao and He Qiang discussed their possible reincarnations, their century in the game world, and their uncertainty about Chaos and reality.
• Liu Xiaoxiao pulled He Qiang through a Space Rift after he finished speaking with Da Bao.
• Da Bao left the hall and heard Zhu Zhuyun say that he had not approached or touched her since destroying the Spirit Hall Empire twelve years earlier.

He Qiang asked Fan Yihuang to help research Spirit Bone Fusion Skills and forge a Fire Dragon Sword to counter Di Tian. After discovering Fei Ling fighting Bing Xuan, a reborn Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, He Qiang took Bing Xuan as his disciple and began planning research with him.

• He Qiang told Fan Yihuang that his research had moved to smaller branches of soul cultivation and asked him to study Spirit Bone Fusion Skills and forge a Fire Dragon Sword for Shrek Academy.
• Liu Xiaoxiao summoned He Qiang to an ice field, where Fei Ling was fighting Bing Xuan, a rank 87 Soul Douluo with an Ice Jade Scorpion Martial Soul.
• He Qiang and Liu Xiaoxiao realized Bing Xuan was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast rebuilt as a human and noticed Fei Ling's feelings for him.
• He Qiang offered to take Bing Xuan as his disciple, and Bing Xuan accepted after Fei Ling called him an ordinary person.
• He Qiang gave Bing Xuan a spirit bone and said he would study soul incantations with him, while Liu Xiaoxiao agreed to help research Spirit Bone Fusion Skills.

He Qiang and Liu Xiaoxiao entered Dragon Valley to study the law that suppressed Soul Power, then prepared the Ten Virtues Secret Realm for its first true Ten Virtues Festival. After a year of study, they left with He Qiang set to preside over the upcoming festival.

• Fei Ling and Bing Xuan married after each had become a Title Douluo in their twenties.
• He Qiang asked Liu Xiaoxiao to take him to Dragon Valley before its scheduled opening, and Liu used his spatial power to bring them inside.
• He Qiang marked a boulder with gold and studied Dragon Valley’s suppressive law while Liu Xiaoxiao tested how it affected him.
• After a year, Liu Xiaoxiao said he had learned to use the suppressive power, though it could only fully suppress opponents with much less Soul Power.
• He Qiang retrieved True Dragon Soul Bones and left Dragon Valley with Liu Xiaoxiao to prepare for the next Ten Virtues Festival.
• He Qiang and Liu Xiaoxiao finished arranging the Ten Virtues Secret Realm, where the Blue Silver Emperor would remove any Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Beasts encountered by entrants.

He Qiang and Zheng Bei confronted a deadly plague, and Zheng Bei inherited the God of Sacred Healing’s divine position to cure and resurrect its victims. He Qiang then proposed founding the Begonia Divine Cult to expand Zheng Bei’s healing work and influence, while advising him to keep his female form.

• He Qiang and Zheng Bei discussed mental power and Zheng Bei’s trial to save one hundred thousand people to inherit the God of Sacred Healing.
• Chen Long reported that four Evil Soul Masters had caused a plague that had killed tens of thousands and infected hundreds of thousands.
• Zheng Bei used the Nine Hearts Begonia to heal victims, but He Qiang realized his limited power could not stop the plague from spreading.
• Zheng Bei entered the God of Sacred Healing’s inheritance and emerged as a god with the power to purge the plague across hundreds of miles and resurrect the recently dead.
• He Qiang explained that worship at Zheng Bei’s statues was generating more mental power and proposed that Zheng Bei establish the Begonia Divine Cult.
• He Qiang urged Zheng Bei not to change back into a man so the statues and gathered mental power would remain associated with him, and Zheng Bei agreed.

Tang San and Xiao Wu prepared to ascend to the God Realm, and He Qiang decided to join them. After arriving, they were escorted by Divine Officials toward the God Realm Committee.

• Tang San told everyone that he would ascend in three days with Xiao Wu, who had been chosen as the sheath of the Asura Demon Sword.
• He Qiang decided to ascend with Tang San and Xiao Wu because his arrangements on Douluo Continent were complete and time flowed differently in the God Realm.
• Three days later, He Qiang, Tang San, and Xiao Wu said goodbye to the gathered crowd and vanished in the light that carried them away.
• He Qiang traveled through a spatial passage and arrived in the cloud-shrouded God Realm with Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• Twenty-four Divine Officials greeted Tang San and He Qiang as the Sea God and God of Darkness, then guided them through the God Realm.
• He Qiang learned that half a month had passed on Douluo Continent during their journey, and the group reached the God Realm Committee.

He Qiang, Tang San, and Xiao Wu met the God Realm Committee’s rulers, where He Qiang questioned the God of Evil about the mysterious God of Time and his involvement in events on Douluo Continent. After the God Kings began discussing the transfer of authority, He Qiang left the hall and addressed Ji Dong as Grandmaster Li Jiedong.

• He Qiang greeted Ji Dong and Lie Yan, then introduced Tang San and Xiao Wu before they guided the group into the committee hall.
• Tang San and his companions met the God of Goodness, the God of Evil, Life, and Destruction, and took seats at the round table.
• He Qiang asked the God of Evil about the God of Time, the absent gods, and the Evil God’s bloodline and power on Douluo Continent.
• The God of Evil revealed that the God of Time had sent the pocket watch and asked him to lend power to the boy who fused with bird wings.
• The God of Goodness began discussing business, so the God of Evil sent He Qiang outside.
• He Qiang found Ji Dong and Lie Yan playing chess and called Ji Dong Grandmaster Li Jiedong.

He Qiang revealed to Ji Dong and Lie Yan that he had come from another Earth and believed their world might be simulated or fictional, then discussed the God Realm’s political tensions with Tang San. The chapter left Tang San hopeful that He Qiang could persuade the God Kings and Enforcers to expand the God Realm, allowing more of his family and friends to ascend.

• He Qiang told Ji Dong that he and his friends had entered Simulation Pods and arrived in the Douluo Continent, and that a novel called God of Wine had described Ji Dong’s life.
• Ji Dong dismissed the importance of whether his world was real or fictional, embraced Lie Yan, and made Sunset cocktails for He Qiang.
• Xiao Wu and Tang San left the God Realm Committee meeting and told He Qiang that the God of Evil and God of Destruction had opposed granting more ascension slots.
• He Qiang explained that the God of Destruction resented Tang San’s new authority, then offered to persuade the God Kings and Enforcers to expand the God Realm.
• Tang San accepted He Qiang’s offer, then left with Xiao Wu to address the Asura God’s inheritance, while He Qiang departed the committee.

He Qiang visited the Goddess of Life and the God of Destruction, urging them to unite with Tang San against a future calamity and asking them to lend their divine positions to him and his friends ten thousand years later. The Goddess of Life agreed to the request, but the God of Destruction refused and remained wary of He Qiang’s warnings.

• He Qiang traveled to the Forest of Life and met the Goddess of Life and the God of Destruction.
• He Qiang warned the God of Destruction that opposing Tang San would divide the God Realm before a future catastrophe, and urged him to unite with Tang San.
• He Qiang asked the two gods to support expanding the God Realm, and both agreed.
• He Qiang explained that he and his friends would return to the Douluo Continent ten thousand years later and asked the gods to pass down their divine positions for one hundred years.
• The Goddess of Life agreed to He Qiang’s request, but the God of Destruction refused.
• After He Qiang left, the Goddess of Life challenged the God of Destruction’s suspicions, and he admitted that he might need to change.

He Qiang persuaded the God Kings to expand the God Realm in preparation for a future crisis, and the God Realm Committee carried out the expansion. After the God Realm grew by more than half, He Qiang set out to find Rong Nianbing.

• He Qiang told the God of Goodness and the God of Evil that the God Realm faced a future crisis and urged them to expand it; they agreed and promised to return in ten thousand years.
• The God of Goodness and the God of Evil discussed the God of Time’s earlier preparations and agreed not to doubt him or the God of Darkness.
• At the God Realm Committee meeting, the God of Goodness proposed expanding the God Realm, and Tang San, Ji Dong, Lie Yan, the Goddess of Life, and the God of Destruction supported the plan.
• The God of Goodness and the God of Evil used the God Realm Core and seventy-two faith power pillars to expand the God Realm.
• He Qiang sensed the expansion end after half a day, then left his residence to find Rong Nianbing.

He Qiang met Rong Nianbing and accompanied him to stop the Water God and Fire God from fighting. After sharing a meal with the Seven Element Gods, He Qiang learned about their plans, divine inheritances, and gods who had perished, then returned home.

• He Qiang met Rong Nianbing, who invited him along to break up the Water God and Fire God's latest fight.
• While traveling, He Qiang told Rong Nianbing about his knowledge of the past and future and explained that he came from another world.
• Rong Nianbing stopped the Water God and Fire God from fighting, and the gathered gods welcomed He Qiang.
• The gods shared Hundred Flower Dew while He Qiang learned that the Seven Element Gods planned to explore distant star systems and had left inheritances behind.
• Rong Nianbing served the gods several elaborate dishes, and He Qiang gathered information about divine inheritances on Douluo Continent and gods who had died.
• After nearly half a day of conversation and dining, He Qiang parted from the gods and returned to his residence.

Little Fatty attempted to inherit the Fire God position so he could take Bai Chenxiang to the God Realm, but the inheritance judged his foundation unstable and forced him through nirvana. He and Bai Chenxiang were brought together and ascended, while the Fire God planned for Little Fatty to first become the Phoenix God and inherit the Fire God position later.

• Sixty-one years after arriving on Douluo Continent, Little Fatty prepared to attempt the Fire God inheritance while Bai Chenxiang worried about his safety.
• Little Fatty transformed into a nine-headed Fire Phoenix and plunged into the crimson hollow as Liu Xiaoxiao and the others watched through a spatial passage.
• The ancient voice declared Little Fatty's foundation unstable and commanded him to be reborn through nirvana, scattering his phoenix form and leaving Bai Chenxiang crying out for him.
• Little Fatty resisted becoming a god because he feared being separated from Bai Chenxiang, but an ink-black pillar of light lifted her to him and they ascended together.
• At the Fire God's residence, He Qiang learned that the Fire God intended to make Little Fatty the Phoenix God first and pass down the Fire God position once the Water God found an inheritor.

He Qiang visited Ji Dong and his companions to accept Tian Ji’s prophetic inheritance, hoping to learn how to foresee the future. After studying the method for three days, he realized he needed to forge a Heavenly Machine Eye to strengthen his ability and hurried to ask Tian Ji how to make one.

• He Qiang arrived at the God Realm Committee and followed Tang San’s divine sense to Ji Dong and the others.
• He Qiang asked Tian Ji to pass on his prophetic method, and Tian Ji agreed after discussing fate and the limits of prophecy.
• He Qiang joined Ji Dong and the others for drinks as Ji Dong prepared eighteen cocktails with the Eighteen Arhats Eighteen Flips.
• Tian Ji passed his prophetic inheritance to He Qiang, then left him to study it with Mo'er.
• After contemplating for three days, He Qiang understood the two kinds of prophecy and recognized that he needed a Heavenly Machine Eye to improve his ability.
• He Qiang left his room to ask Tian Ji how to forge the Heavenly Machine Eye.

With three years left before the Ten Sages had to leave the Douluo Continent, He Qiang returned there to prepare the Ten Virtues Secret Realm and gather his companions. The group reunited in the God Realm with only three days remaining, while He Qiang slipped away for an unknown task and Da Bao asked Little Fatty to speak privately.

• He Qiang asked Tang San to let him descend to the Douluo Continent, and Tang San opened a passage for him.
• He Qiang met Liu Xiaoxiao and the others at Shrek Academy, and Liu Xiaoxiao brought them to the Ten Virtues Secret Realm.
• He Qiang and his companions left their divine armor and artifacts in the secret realm, while Wang Haochen kept the Soul-Snatching Tablet sealed in its original valley.
• He Qiang gave three Storage Bracelets to the Blue Silver Emperor, then sent the others to the God Realm while he stayed behind to use his Heavenly Machine Eye.
• The Shrek Seven Devils, Bai Chenxiang, and the Ten Sages gathered in the God Realm Committee and discussed their imminent departure; Da Bao then asked Little Fatty to talk privately.